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New WordPress Buttons: Black Social Buttons

Written by Nicole Farrell, November 14th, 2016

We figured it was about time we created a new social media button set that features current popular sites and apps like Instagram and Snapchat. We kept it simple and solid with a black and white theme, but there are so many different styles that could be created with this set. We’ve chosen to pair […]

MaxButtons Pro Color Picker

Written by Bob Senoff, November 8th, 2016

Last week we released MaxButtons and MaxButtons Pro versions 6.5 which include our beautiful new color picker! There are number of things about this color picker we love. First is that the color hex code is automatically highlighted so that it is very easy to copy/paste into hover and other button states. The sliding bar […]

New WordPress Buttons: Red Canyon Buttons

Written by Nicole Farrell, October 15th, 2016

Inspired by the warm brick color found in the canyons, these new buttons are perfect for the fall season and feature most common actions found on websites and blogs. We’ve chosen to pair the google font ‘actor‘ in white which provides easy to read white text on the red background with white font awesome […]

New WordPress Buttons: Basic Buttons 3

Written by Nicole Farrell, September 28th, 2016

This new pack of WordPress buttons was created to show off one of the greatest features of MaxButtons Pro, our built in font awesome icons! Did you know we’ve made it easy to create great looking buttons right in the plugin? Simply select the icon, choose the size and color and you’re ready to go. […]

MaxButtons Pro Version 6

Written by Bob Senoff, September 28th, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of MaxButtons Pro version 6. We highly recommend all MaxButtons Pro customers update to this latest version. Log into your Account page or update in your plugin admin now please. We have made some big strides since the release of version 5 including an integration with popular Beaver Builder […]

1 Million Thanks…and Downloads!

Written by Bob Senoff, September 23rd, 2016

Yesterday with the release of MaxButtons Version 6.01 we soared right through 1M downloads for MaxButtons. We are truly humbled by the massive amount of clicking that has taken place on MaxButtons WordPress repo download button. Between the enthusiastic use of MaxButtons and the 369 5 star user reviews we are really pleased to have played […]

MaxButtons Pro Mobile Interface Updates

Written by Bob Senoff, August 30th, 2016

Last week we released MaxButtons Pro version 5.11 which included updates that make it easier to use MaxButtons Pro on mobile devices down to 640 pixels in width. Now we know that most of you only work on your site at a desktop machine, but in talking with a large hosting provider they requested that […]

New WordPress Buttons: Basic Gradient Buttons

Written by Nicole Farrell, August 30th, 2016

Cheers to another new set of buttons released today! Easily add ready to use website buttons to your WordPress site for actions such as buy now, checkout, search, follow, email and more. Featuring 5 color gradients, easy to read white text and a simple design this button set is meant to help you on your way to […]

MaxButtons Pro’s Easy Digital Downloads Integration

Written by Bob Senoff, August 23rd, 2016

MaxButtons Pro Version 5.10 includes our full integration with Easy Digital Downloads to use MaxButtons for Purchase and Checkout buttons. These are the two of the most important e-commerce call to action touch points on your Easy Digital Downloads site. MaxButtons Pro automatically detects the presence on EDD on your site. Once installed go to […]

New WordPress Buttons: Whimsy Summer Buttons

Written by Nicole Farrell, August 23rd, 2016

Don’t worry! The summer may nearly be over but you can keep a fun, cheery atmosphere on your blog lasting longer with this new set of website buttons for MaxButtons Pro. Pretty flower icons in soft pastel colors created by Vecteezy make these buttons perfect for personalizing your site. The new pack includes 9 different […]

New WordPress Buttons: Blog Sidebar Buttons

Written by Nicole Farrell, August 21st, 2016

There are so many different design and layout options for a blog in this day and age and while the sidebar may not be your main focus, we wanted to provide some beautiful buttons to link to your most important pages and social sites. This set includes 24 periwinkle blue banners that stack vertically in the […]

New WordPress Buttons: Basic Buttons 2

Written by Bob Senoff, August 18th, 2016

This week we published Basic Buttons 2 as a follow on our extremely popular Basic Buttons set released earlier this year. The purpose of this basic WordPress sets is to give you plenty of beautiful button designs to use or modify to get you up and running fast. They are just part of our goal to keep MaxButtons Pro the […]

New! Beaver Builder Integration

Written by Bob Senoff, August 16th, 2016

New Beaver Builder Integration! We are super pleased to announce our latest integration of MaxButtons Pro with Beaver Builder WordPress Page Builder. Like our integrations with Site Origin Page Builder and Visual Composer for WordPress we take the deep dive to make working with Beaver Builder and MaxButtons as easy and seamless as possible. Download […]

Free E-Commerce Button Pack and Bluchic Themes Offer

Written by Bob Senoff, July 11th, 2016

Free Button Pack Today we posted our Buy Add Shop E-Commerce button pack which is free through next weekend. We will be posting a number of new E-commerce button packs through the month of July. We think this one is particularly nice with it’s pastel background colors. Bluchic Themes Deal Our Senior Design Consultant Natalie […]

July 4th Sale and Metrize Actions Buttons

Written by Bob Senoff, June 9th, 2016

Just a quick update. We posted this nice free July 4th Sale button pack along with this really sweet new Metrize Action button pack. The Metrize pack is free until next weekend. The Max Foundry Team MaxButtons Pro | MaxGalleria | Media Library Pro Plus

300+ 5 Star Reviews

Written by Bob Senoff, June 8th, 2016

Over the past year we have reached out to our customers and have asked you to leave reviews. We read everyone of them. MaxButtons has an average rating of 4.7 stars from a total of 362 reviews. Last month we received our 300th 5 star review. A point for celebration. We have found that some of […]

Contact Form 7 Integration

Written by Bob Senoff, June 2nd, 2016

Contact Form 7 Today we launched MaxButtons Pro WordPress button plugin Version 5.3 which includes a new integration with the popular form builder Contact Form 7. Contact Form 7 joins the list of our integrations with popular plugins Visual Composer and SiteOrigin Page Builder. Please let us know if you have MaxButtons Pro integrations that would […]

Create WordPress Buttons

Written by Nicole Farrell, May 28th, 2016

Today I’m going to show you how to create WordPress buttons that are as beautiful as they are fast to make using the MaxButtons Pro WordPress button plugin. The first step is to open up your WordPress website dashboard and click on the MaxButtons Pro icon. In the top left of the screen click the ‘Add New’ button […]

Free Blue Mini UI Pack

Written by Bob Senoff, May 6th, 2016

We would like to thank the several people who reached out to talk with us about pricing by replying to last weeks’ email. We were very glad to hear that folks are pleased with WordPress button plugin MaxButtons Pro and our continuing improvements we are making. It was good to get to speak with some of you […]

MaxButtons Pro WordPress Button Plugin Version 5

Written by Bob Senoff, April 29th, 2016

WordPress Button Plugin A very big week for us here with the release of MaxButtons Pro WordPress button plugin Version 5. You have seen quite a few of the upgrades in the versions prior to this release. We very much appreciate your emails and great ratings and we are glad to hear how much you […]

New Button Editor

Written by Bob Senoff, April 16th, 2016

Yesterday we released Version 4.22 of MaxButtons Pro which includes a significant refresh of the basic section of the button editor. We think this is a nice improvement to getting buttons designed even faster and easier. Planning on creating new buttons soon or are curious about the UI magic we have have performed on MaxButtons Pro you […]

Revisiting the Button Editor

Written by Bob Senoff, April 2nd, 2016

It has been more than two years since we have taken a look at the layout of our button editor. From the ratings we receive we know how much people like MaxButtons Pro as it is now. But in our minds we have wanted to upgrade your ability to put great buttons up very faster […]

Happy Easter Buttons Released

Written by Bob Senoff, March 25th, 2016

Today we released Version 4.19 of MaxButtons Pro which you can download from your Account page on the MaxButtons Pro site or update it from the plugin dashboard if you are using Version 4.10 or later. Version 4.19 fixed some small changes including a conflict with Toolset Types on icons, adding an extra check on passing the version number in […]

MaxButtons Coupons

Written by Bob Senoff, March 20th, 2016

They don’t exist. You have found MaxButtons Pro and read through the site and now you want to buy it. The next thing you might do is type MaxButtons Coupons or MaxButtons discount into your search engine. You might find some offers from way back from when we were first starting. But none of them […]

Google Fonts – Over 700 of them

Written by Bob Senoff, March 18th, 2016

In Version 4.18 we built a Font Manager for Google fonts you can use for the text of your buttons. We now include the entire set of the Google fonts in MaxButtons Pro. Over 700 of them. In the Text section of the buttons editor you will see a blue Manage Fonts link to go […]

Visual Composer for WordPress

Written by Bob Senoff, March 11th, 2016

Today we released Version 4.17 of MaxButtons and MaxButtons Pro. We highly recommend that you download the latest version of MaxButtons Pro from your Account page on the MaxButtons Pro site or update it the plugin dashboard if you are using Version 4.10 or later. Version 4.17 of MaxButtons Pro contains our integration with Visual Composer for WordPress page builder! In addition to […]

Holiday Buttons

Written by Bob Senoff, March 5th, 2016

Just a reminder with St. Patricks day almost upon us that MaxButtons Pro comes with free button packs for a number of holidays. You can find them in our listing of free button packs on the button pack page. We have packs for Valentine’s day, St. Patrick’s day, Mother’s and Father’s day, Cinco de Mayo […]

Social Share and a new Social Icons Button Pack

Written by Bob Senoff, February 18th, 2016

When we launched MaxButtons Pro Version 4.0 we included the beta version of our Social Sharing capability in MaxButtons Pro. Social Share for articles and posts has exploded and we realized that a lot of you would appreciate a robust Social Share offering that also included the ability to design your social icons just the way […]

Font Awesome 4.5.0 Support

Written by Bob Senoff, February 12th, 2016

Version 4.13 included our new Basic Buttons button pack with 30 buttons you can use to get you up and running super fast. We have enjoyed watching all of your downloads come through our system. We hope you are enjoying it as much as we think it makes MaxButtons Pro easier. Aside from Basic Buttons […]

Basic Buttons

Written by Bob Senoff, February 5th, 2016

A lot of our users are focused on simply getting terrific buttons up on their site’s super fast. Basic buttons. So we now include with MaxButtons Pro a large button pack set of Basic Buttons. We worked to include the basic button shapes, borders and gradients to cover almost any WordPress button need you might […]

Pin your images with Pinterest

Written by Bas Schuiling, January 28th, 2016

With the release of Version 4.12 today you now can let visitors pin images directly from your site or blog post to their Pinterest boards using the social share features of MaxButtons and MaxButtons Pro. We highly recommended that you upgrade MaxButtons Pro to Version 4.12 not just for this change but also to be able […]

Having your Shortcake (Plugin)

Written by Bob Senoff, January 20th, 2016

Our latest version of MaxButtons and MaxButtons Pro shipped with an integration of the Shortcake plugin. What the Shortcake plugin allows you to do is see your shortcode in your editor as it will appear on the page. While [shortcode id=”xx”] seems groovy to use and to a lot of experienced programmers it is, we think seeing […]

SiteOrigin Page Builder and MaxButtons Pro

Written by Bob Senoff, January 16th, 2016

Today we released MaxButtons Pro Version 4.11 which contains our full integration for SiteOrigin Page Builder . This integration lets you use MaxButton’s simple and powerful capabilities to build and use beautiful buttons in Page Builder. Specifically our version 4.11 release let’s you add MaxButtons and MaxButtons Pro to your SiteOrigin Widgets plugin. Once installed you can add buttons automatically when using […]

Best WordPress Button Plugins

Written by Bob Senoff, October 14th, 2015

We have been building and updating MaxButtons Pro for several years. Our free WordPress plugin MaxButtons is by far the most downloaded and installed WordPress Buttons plugin across WordPress. Recently we have been asking our many users to rate MaxButtons and we have been overwhelmed by the positive outpouring of appreciation and affection for MaxButtons […]

WordPress Button Plugin

Written by Bob Senoff, October 13th, 2015

The easiest and most productive way to insert buttons on a WordPress site is to use a WordPress button plugin. MaxButtons Pro is the premium version of MaxButtons one of the most popular WordPress button generators. With over 50,000 active users MaxButtons is the most used WordPress button plugin. When looking at different WordPress button plugins it can […]